grapa
[ˈgɾapa]
The verdict
“grapa” is uncommon Spanish (frequency #65,413 among 1,728 “G” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,413
- frequency rank, Spanish
- 1,728
- “G” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fijación metálica en forma de U, que se clava para unir dos o más objetos.
Corpus desk
Index ES-grapa · grapa · Spanish
grapa · rank #65,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,413
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,728
- PHOTO-FINISH Greece
Nearest frequency peer: Greece (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangos de cola larga cerca de “grapa”
Banda escasa: las barras invierten el rango para que lo raro se lea más corto
- gora
gora
34,593 corpus weight
- gotea
gotea
34,592 corpus weight
- graciosamen…
graciosamente
34,591 corpus weight
- grapa
grapa
34,588 corpus weight
- Greece
Greece
34,587 corpus weight
- gélido
gélido
34,582 corpus weight
What this shows Vista de cola larga: dónde “grapa” se sitúa frente a rangos españoles igualmente raros.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | grapa |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | [ˈgɾapa] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #65,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Cola larga: rango de “grapa” en español
Rare enough to double-check
grapa is uncommon Spanish at frequency #65,413 among 1,728 “G” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed [ˈgɾapa]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
grapa has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable Spanish rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct Spanish form is grapa, spelled G-R-A-P-A.
Definition
- 1Fijación metálica en forma de U, que se clava para unir dos o más objetos.
- 2En especial, grapa₁ usada para unir los bordes de una herida.
- 3Ramas que conforman la estructura de un racimo.
- 4Lesión ulcerosa que afecta las articulaciones de las patas del caballo.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 Spanish corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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